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notice of election and within thirty days after each recurring annual date. This 

 Sustaining Membership entitles the member to free admission for the member and 

 family to the Museum on any day and allows 25 admission coupons, which may be 

 used by any one, the Annual Report and such other Museimi docimients or publica- 

 tions as may be requested in writing. When a Sustaining Member has paid the 

 annual fee of I25.00 for six years, such member shall be entitled to become an Asso- 

 ciate Member. 



Section 8. Annual Members shall consist of such persons, as are selected from 

 time to time by the Board of Trustees at any of its meetings, and who shall pay an 

 annual fee of ten ($10.00) dollars, payable within thirty days after each recurring 

 annual date. An Aimual Membership shall entitle the member to a card of admission 

 for the member and family during all hours when the Museum is open to the public, 

 and free admission for the member and family to all Museum lectures or entertain- 

 ments. This membership will also entitle the holder to the courtesies of the mem- 

 bership privileges of every Museum of note in the United States and Canada, so 

 long as the existing system of cooperative interchange of membership tickets shall 

 be maintained, including tickets for any lectures given imder the auspices of any of 

 the Museums during a visit to the cities in which the cooperative museimis are 

 located. 



ARTICLE II. 



BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 



Section i. The Board of Trustees shall consist of twenty-one members. The 

 respective members of the Board now in office, and those who shall hereafter be 

 elected, shall hold office during life. Vacancies occurring in the Board shall be 

 filled at a regular meeting of the Board, upon the nomination of the Executive Com- 

 mittee made at a preceding regular meeting of the Board, by a majority vote of the 

 members of the Board. 



Section 2. Regular meetings of the Board shall be held on the third Monday 

 of each month. Special meetings may be called at any time by the President, and 

 shall be called by the Secretary upon the written request of three Trustees. Five 

 Trustees shall constitute a quorum, except for the election of officers or the adoption 

 of the Annual Budget, when seven Trustees shall be required, but meetings may be 

 adjoiimed by any less nimiber from day to day, or to a day fixed, previous to the 

 next regular meeting. 



Section 3. Reasonable written notice, designating the time and place of 

 holding meetings, shall be given by the Secretary. 



ARTICLE III. 



HONORARY TRUSTEES. 



Section i. As a mark of respect, and in appreciation of services performed 

 for the Institution, those Trustees who by reason of inability, on account of change 

 of residence, or for other cause or from indisposition to serve longer in such capacity 

 shall resign their place upon the Board, may be elected, by a majority of those 

 present at any regular meeting of the Board, an Honorary Trustee for life. Such 

 Honorary Trustee will receive notice of all meetings of the Board of Trustees, whether 

 regular or special, and will be expected to be present at all such meetings and partici- 

 pate in the deliberations thereof, but an Honorary Trustee shall not have the right to 

 vote. 



